Motivational Quotes

Life

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

- Salisbury, Harrison

Best Quotes about Life

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

12.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

33.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey